Zimbabwean society where various forms of art, culture and expression serve
to showcase the diversity of the nation’s heritage. The policy further seeks to
create an enabling environment that allows for inclusive, equitable and vibrant
participation by all Zimbabweans in arts, culture and heritage for greater social
cohesion. It also encourages individuals, groups and communities to contribute
towards safeguarding Zimbabwe’s culture, artistic expression, and tangible as
well as intangible heritage for posterity.
The guiding principles of the policy include sovereignty, equal dignity for all
indigenous
sustainable
cultures,
recognition
development,
of
culture
unhu/Ubuntu,
in
economic
Pan-Africanism
development,
and
African
renaissance. While the policy might not really have aspects of censorship it can
be a guide as to how the policy views artists and how then such artistic
expression will be censored. The fact that the policy highlights sovereignty as a
guiding principle leaves a lot of room for individuals to interpret sovereignty. In
this case censorship needs also to be clearly addressed within the policy giving
clear reasons for censorship.
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